MIS and You

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MIS and You
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What is information made of?

• An information system is an assembly of hardware,
  software, procedures and people that interact to
  produce information. This information can be
  defined as
• Knowledge derived from study, experience, or
  instruction.
• Data presented in a meaningful context.
• Data processed by summing, ordering, grouping,
  comparing.
• Information is any kind of knowledge that can be
  exchange among people, about things, facts, and
  concepts.

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If you have more information, do you weigh more?
Why or why not?

• Having more information doesnt always mean that
  you weigh more because of it. The weight of one
  persons information varies on the context it is
  used. How the person uses the information shows
  the weight of it. Many times one persons
  information is another persons data. Information
  is subjective on to which context it is used, in
  different situations it could weigh more or less.
  When the context of the information is changed
  the weigh of the information also changes. An
  example that the book gives is how a
  manufacturing department daily activity is just a
  small portion of data to that the accounting
  department is going to use to provide information
  to the company that might just use it as small
  information given to investors. The investors
  will use the companys data as their own data. To
  conclude, the more information you have does not
  mean the information weights more, it all depends
  on the context it is going to be used.

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If you give a copy of your transcript to a
prospective employer, is that information? If you
show that same transcript to your dog, is it
still information?

• Informationknowledge derived from data,
  presented in a meaningful context,
• Transcriptperfect example of good information,
  giving a copy of my prospective employer, Ill
  give him all the important data that can be
  processed to conclude a good information.
• Giving the same transcript to my dog, would still
  be a good information but in this case will be
  irrelevant

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Give your own best definition of information.

• Detailed message about a certain subject or
  material that adds to your knowledge in some way.
  
• It varies depending on who is looking at the
  message or what they expect to get out of it.

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Explain how you think it is possible that we have
an industry called information technology
industry, but we have great difficulty defining
the word information

• Everything today is about new innovation, new
  machineries, and equipments to achieve the
  businesss goals easier and to perform the job
  faster.
• Technology does not exist without information and
  information can not exist without technology they
  are both integrated
• Defining the word information can be confusing
  and difficult because the information always
  comes with a message or a concept and not
  everyone has the same perspective